New build, weird issues.

[GrandBandit]

Hey there! Just built a new PC and I was playing a rather unintensive game (Orion Prelude) when the PC crashed, and kept 'restarting' (turning on for 3 seconds, and turning off, and repeating) where presumably the PSU was making a weird clicking noise each time. I fixed it by doing a power flush and unplugging all the USB devices. Any thoughts on this? My specs are: GTX 970 Strix, EVGA 750wG2, I7 4970k. A friend speculated perhaps it's because I'm using an only junky laptop drive as well as my SSD (the issue happened one time shortly after using the drive) but it's pure speculation. Could that drive have caused the crash and the failure to post without flushing it?

EDIT: Another friend telling me my PSU isn't sufficient. That doesn't seem likely to me. Right?

[yodapancake]

• laptop hardrives should work however they are a bit slower

if you dont have enough wattage you could be damaging your power supply from overloading

check if everything is plugged in

[Speedrookie]

Most PSUs click on and off 2-3 times after power loss. (What the heck is a power flush). Also as long as your using the PSU for the correct wattage it should be fine.

 

If my PC Crashes from overclocking then it acts as if a power surge and PSU comes on, off then on, then off, then stays on. 

[GrandBandit]

• laptop hardrives should work however they are a bit slower
• if you dont have enough wattage you could be damaging your power supply from overloading
• check if everything is plugged in

Thats the thing, if you pcpartpick my parts I have MORE than enough.

[GrandBandit]

UPDATE: 

 

Here's the deal. I installed the H90 cpu cooler, the stress test ran about 5 minutes longer than before. This time I got a blue screen with some "kernal failure" (I missed it) and then it did the PSU click thing just one time and then attempted to boot, but kept blue screening (but not continuously clicking) I monitored CPU temps and it got to around 79 max when it did it. Now I get no post and the error code "26" on the debug thing on the motherboard and it's not anywhere to be found what it means.

 

As for the clicking noise, it could be comparable to flipping a light switch I'd say? And it only happens when it crashes, never when I'm just normally booting it. The machine would not boot past that 26 error code on the mobo, no screen at all. I waited 5 minutes and it booted, but then it needed to do a restore, so I'm way back into the OS when I first got it without drivers installed.